Holding on

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” – William Feathers

You’re going to hit some bumps on the road, but if you keep going, you’ll eventually get to your destination. Part of success is about perseverance – about “hanging on after others have let go.”

But you can’t just “hang on” and expect to become successful. You need to work on minimizing mistakes or making vast improvements.

If you make mistakes, it is better to make them quickly so you can learn from them and move on.

This is why reading/researching is so important. Instead of having to learn everything by experiencing, which can take a long time and cost a lot of money, your success is capped by your willingness/ability to learn from what others have already done. You don’t have to make the same mistakes that others have made. In addition to helping to minimize your mistakes, reading/researching can also help you improve your performance. It’s a shortcut to success.

So what do you need to do to achieve success?

1) Be willing to do what others won’t today so that tomorrow you can accomplish what others can’t. Most people shy away from hard work and long hours. You should run toward this.

2) Forgive yourself. You will make a lot of mistakes on the way to success. Be sure to learn from those mistakes and try not to repeat them.

3) Forgive others. Other people will make a lot of mistakes and it may feel like they are a road block to your path to success. Remember, nobody is perfect, everyone has to start somewhere, and at one point, you were the rookie making those same mistakes.

4) Hold on. Be willing to hold on long after everyone else has let go. If this is truly the right goal for you and it has meaning to you, don’t give up. You can achieve a lot in life just by sticking with something when others have given up.